Get your own house in order first

Sunderland Echo
Letters Page
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Colin Anderson's letter in the Echo on March 2 about Liberal "paralysis" was laughable.
How on earth has Coun Anderson got the time and inclination to criticise the Liberal council of another city like Newcastle?
Coun Anderson should just look around Sunderland and see what Labour has done for the city?
I'm not a Liberal. Indeed, I find modern politics an absolute shambles, both at local and national level.
On Wearside the arrogance of the controlling Labour council is well known. I would like to see the formal qualifications that many of our fancily-titled councillors actually have.
As Neil Herron said, it is time for Sunderland to rise politically, to refuse to bow to the Newcastle-Gateshead axis, and for our elected councillors to be people of vision, people of intuition and inventiveness.
To those who vote for those currently in power, I say, have a look at your city. Is this the best Sunderland, the former biggest shipbuilding town in the world, major contributor to the winning of World War II, can do for itself?
Time for change, time for vision and ambition. Time for Sunderland.
Time for Herron as Mayor?

Ian Patterson
Roker Park
Sunderland